From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 09:09:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25211 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:09:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA25206 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA08566; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:09:01 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:09:01 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: David Lowe cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp strangeness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, David Lowe wrote: > I failed to mention that this "up" interface doesn't work. What you say > makes sense, thanks. But the problem is that ppp -auto is failing to dial > out despite this. I get "host name lookup failure" and "host unknown" > messages when I try to telnet/ping/etc. Am I missing something? How do I Make sure that the name and IP Address of the host you are trying to connect to is listed in /etc/hosts. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82